Myspace Forward-thinking electro-dancehall duo Bonjay has been causing a commotion in Toronto's indie music scene. After covering-slash-remixing songs by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Feist and Brazilian electro-pop project Bonde do Rolê, singer Alanna Stuart and beatsmith Ian 'Pho' Swain took their one-time musical side-project on ...

Alex Cuba may have been born in Fidel Castro's stomping grounds, but the singer-songwriter currently calls small town Smithers, BC his home. So even though the then-named Alexis Puentes was classically trained in guitar, percussion and bass as a child, his current work strips down the multi-layered sound of Cuban music to find its sweet, soulful ...

"Slow down" is a phrase that doesn't generally fit into Ghislain Poirier's lexicon. After exhaustively touring the US, Canada and Europe in support of his speaker-smashing 'Soca Sound System' EP, Poirier returns with 'Run the Riddim,' the second release in his three-EP series on Ninja Tune that mashes-up electro with bass-heavy Caribbean sounds but ...

Alex Cuba has been pretty busy for the past year since the crossover success of his second album, 'Agua de Pozo,' sent the Cuban-Canadian touring across Europe, Asia and North America. But not too busy to work with one of the world's biggest pop stars, Nelly Furtado, on her first Spanish-language album, 'Mi Plan.' "We met through Daniel Stone, ...